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Updated: May 26, 2025
Other hands had been trained in serving the gun, so that the places of any disabled in action could be replaced. The service at the Parrot was not all that was required of the men forming the gun crew, for each was also a first or second boarder, a pumpman, or something else, and to each number one or two weapons were assigned, as musket and pike, sword and pistol, battle-axe.
I 'ad to get that shaft unwatered, did n't I?" "Get a rail!" Another irate but laughing pumpman had come forward. "Think you can pull that on us? Get a rail!" Some one seized a small, dead pine which lay on the ground near by. Others helped to strip it of the scraggly limbs which still clung to it. Harry watched them and chuckled for he knew that in none was there malice.
"You !" A pumpman had picked up a piece of heavy timbering and thrown it at him in mock ferocity. "Work us to death and then come back and give us the laugh! Where you been at?" "Center City," confessed Harry cheerily. "And you knew all the time?" Mother Howard wagged a finger under his nose. "Well," and the Cornishman chuckled, "I did n't 'ave any money.
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